Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Faris

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

Clayton Christensen

In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish my doctorate, and so I had a deep respect for the brains, talent, and dedication of managers. That made it hard for me to believe the attributions in the business press that stupid management was to blame. So I looked elsewhere for an explanation.

D. H. Lawrence

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

Conrad Veidt

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

Conrad Veidt

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

Clint Eastwood

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Clarence Darrow

It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater possibilities and grander heights.

Danny Kaye

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

Daniel Dennett

As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

David Fincher

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

David Foster Wallace

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

David Foster Wallace

Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?

David Cronenberg

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Daryl Hannah

Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

David Zucker

I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

David Lloyd George

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

Curt Schilling

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

Alicia Witt

so the moral of this week is: if u do something really, really stupid in front of someone ur just getting to know & they still think youre awesome, then you got yourself a friend .

Alicia Silverstone

I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

Alice Schwarzer

People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way.

Alice Hoffman

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

Alice Hoffman

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

Andy Partridge

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

Andy Roddick

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

Albert Gubay

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

Albert Ellis

Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

Albert Brooks

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

Albert Brooks

You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.

Albert Camus

I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

Albert Camus

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Amanda Hocking

How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.

Amanda Palmer

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

Annie Dillard

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.